I guess I need to respect you at least for your sincerness. Well, first of all in your first comment (#6) you gave an example of Kinijit compromising with Meles and him refusing to take positive steps, so I doubted whether you read the artice or not, because the article does not talk about compromise and dialogue with Meles. The article suggests compromise and dialogue among opposition forces to act in unity to liberate Ethiopia!

Then in you second comment (#8) you wrote …

" it has been proven that the different political opposing parties have failed many times to bring unity among themselves through dialogue and compromise, for each political organization, I assume, has its own hidden agenda, believing in itself that it would defeat the present oppressive regime without seeking the help of the other opposing political party, so when that happens it would assume a complete supremacy over the other political party. Therefore, as far as such a selfish motive exists in each political organization, there is no need for dialogue and compromise; it is simply a waste of time, money and energy."

This "selfish motive" you pointed out again has been addressed in the article and the author had already suggested a way to eradicate this problem….here it is…

"…if any of the leaders of the Ethiopian opposition forces genuinely care for our people who currently suffer under a fascist regime, they will take the time to approach each other and set up a conference to at least discuss the root cause of the oppressive Ethiopian political culture and the prospect of a peaceful post-TPLF Ethiopia"

Thus, you can't conclude that compromise between opposition forces to have a common goal would be a waste of time. As the author put it, if the leaders of each organization care about the people they claim they represent, this is a key step to take!

So in your #10 comment you wrote….

"Dialogue and compromise are the weapons of weak people, and the reason why Meles does not want any dialogue and compromise with any of the opposing party is because he is on a strong position – his army, so we have a political opposing party"

I thought I already said dialogue with Meles is not discussed in this article! That's when it became hard to follow your order of reasoning logically!

Well, whatever organization we form to overthrow TPLF and whether our organization is successful or not, the content of the above article will still be relevant. There will never be peace or stability if majore political forces are not dealt with, with dialogue and compromise. If lets say Ginbot 7 replaces TPLF, will it tell the OLF and ONLF to wonder in the jungles like the dergue did and TPLF is doing now? I agree that we need to be armed to protect our nation, because I have been convinced TPLF compromises only in that language. But that's another issue…however, you cannot go to war with other forces who claim to represent oppressed people…talk to them and if possible work with them!! That's the point of the article above…:-)

Please, don’t stop commenting, and you have the right to insult or pretend to flatter me because of my logical or illogical order of reasoning, and I want you to spell out the illogical reasoning that has disturbed you in my comments so far. I am not a person who easily gets angry when a brother like you tries to correct my mistakes; I am always open for a constructive discussion at any time on any subject, comfortable or uncomfortable.

Dialogue and compromise are the weapons of weak people, and the reason why Meles does not want any dialogue and compromise with any of the opposing party is because he is on a strong position – his army, so we have a political opposing party – Ginbot 7, and if we all stick to this new political organization without wasting our times for the sake of dialogue and compromise with the other party, we will become stronger, and when Meles examines our strength and finds it that it is a mighty organization that could move even mountains, then he would surrender without resistance, or he would seek a dialogue and a compromise with us. Of course, we cannot have a dialogue and a compromise with an evil person, too much blood in his hand. We would simply ask him to put down his weapons and leave his office.

I believe to present an optimistic opinion to an audience is simple, but to fail to bring that optimistic opinion into reality is much worse than to offer nothing, and let us not forget that destructive opinions sometimes become constructive ones like destructive volcano that forms beautiful islands such as Hawaii. Yet, the opposing parties have been discussing both destructive and constructive opinions for almost 17 years and still have not come up with a single plan that would unite all the parties and defeat our common enemy – Meles Seitanawi.

Yes, I have read the article, and I completely agree with your comment, but it has been proven that the different political opposing parties have failed many times to bring unity among themselves through dialogue and compromise, for each political organization, I assume, has its own hidden agenda, believing in itself that it would defeat the present oppressive regime without seeking the help of the other opposing political party, so when that happens it would assume a complete supremacy over the other political party. Therefore, as far as such a selfish motive exists in each political organization, there is no need for dialogue and compromise; it is simply a waste of time, money and energy. In this case, I argue that dialogue and compromise between the opposing political parties do not produce unity, and thus unity is not the product of dialogue and compromise.

The take-home message of this article is: when the potentially powerful majority fight amongst each other or fail to resolve their differences, the obviously weak minority elites win the battle!

For example, Kinijit has tried to have a dialogue and, perhaps, a compromise with Meles Seitanawi, but Meles has refused to do so, and as a result of Meles’ refusal for dialogue and a compromise, many of the opposing party would like to wage war against Meles to bring unity to the Ethiopian people, and that is the only way Meles understands, but most of us do not want war because we are afraid to die; however, unity is hard to achieve without a blood shed. I hate to say it, but that is the truth from the historical view points of many freedom fighters.

Shame on eyasu EPRP gangsters and Death to weyane members!!!!

This is one of the articles that make me read ER….